Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...term, in a face-off with Dole. In Stevens' corner was Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who in an effective, if quirky, nomination speech compared the Senate to the Washington Redskins football team and cast Stevens as a man who had valuable experience playing "backup quarterback." But the elder statesman's plug was not enough. Stevens, known for his combustible temper, lost by three votes, and in a display of characteristic crotchetiness, immediately threatened to renew his challenge to Dole in two years...
After watching the debate, I am convinced that the lady from Queens is not qualified to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. She looked like a schoolgirl alongside Bush, a distinguished and experienced statesman...
...feel acutely embarrassed when all kinds of VIPS come for advice and even help in their projects, as is increasingly happening. I still haven't got used to being on the Working Committee of the A.I.C.C. [All India Congress Committee]! . . . Can you imagine me being an "elder statesman...
...past these institutions have displayed a remarkable resilience. India weathered two years of emergency rule under Gandhi and emerged to elect a government of previously opposition parties. It has had state boundaries completely redrawn and survived two previous succession crises. All that is needed now is a statesman ready to lead the country back to the politics of consensus. We hope that Rajiv Gandhi is such...
...pulser photograph is Seward's latest astronomical contribution. "He's really gotten the field off the ground. He's the recognized elder statesman," Murray says...